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Thirteenth  Annual 

BANQUET 


Chester   County  Historical   Society 


New  Century  Club  House 

West  Chester,  Pennsylvania 


December   13^    1917 


DR.    JESSE    C.    GREEN,  at  the  end  of  hit  first  century 


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Chester  County  Historical  Society 


Introduction   by    the   Toastmaster 

R.  riinjPS:  Guests  and  Fcllow-AIembers  of  the  Chester 
Cniinty  Historical  Society:  We  welcome  you  all  here 
tonig-ht  most  heartily.  This  is  the  largest  attendance  at 
any  banquet  that  this  society  has  had.  and  it  is  due  to  the 
fact  that  we  are  here  tonight  to  honor  the  foremost  and  most  dis- 
tinguished citizen  of  West  Chester,  Dr.  Jesse  C.  Green.  Every  one 
here  is  proud  of  his  county,  and  we  are  proud  of  it  chiefly  because 
of  such  lives  as  that  which  has  been  lived  by  this  distinguished  man 
at  my  right  tonight.  It  is  such  lives  as  his  that  have  made  the 
history  of  this  county  something  to  be  proud  of. 

I  have  not  presided  at  any  meeting  of  this  Society  in  which  it 
has  been  so  easy  to  find  persons  who  were  willing  to  speak.  They 
wanted  to  speak  about  the  life  and  career  of  this  man.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  I  have  not  asked  a  single  person  to  speak  tonight  who  has 
not  gladly  consented  to  ap])ear  and  to  speak,  not  one;  and  1  am  iirst 
going  to  ask  a  distinguisJUMl  member  of  Dr.  Green's  profession  to 
h>c  speak  tonight,   Dr.    Darby,   of   Philadelphia.     He   and   Dr.   Green 

i  graduated  from  the  same  class  at  the  same  time,  from  the  Dental 

College  of  Philadelphia,  and  like  our  Dr.  Green  is  one  of  the  most 
distinguished  members  of  his  profession  in  this  state  and  the  United 
States. 

I  have  great  pleasure  in  calling  upon  Dr.  Darby. 


ST'SSSO 


THIRTEENTH    ANNUAL    UANQUET 


Remarks   of  Dr.    Edwin   T.    Darby 

R.  TOASTMASER,  Guests  and  Fellow  Participants  in  this 
unusual  and  happy  occasion:  Some  years  ago  Elbert 
Hubbard,  who  went  down  with  the  Lusitania.  was  makinq; 
a  lecture  tour  through  the  West,  and  it  chanced  that  he  was 
obliged  to  wait  for  a  few  hours  in  Omaha  in  order  to  connect  with 
the  train  on  wdiich  he  wished  to  go  further  West.  He  said  that  as 
he  stepped  out  of  the  train  he  saw  a  beautiful  station,  very  much  in 
architectural  design  like  a  Grecian  temple.  As  he  stepped  into  the 
large  and  spacious  waiting  room  and  took  his  seat,  he  heard  a  train 
pull  in,  and  presently  there  walked  in  from  the  platform  a  woman 
from  the  humbler  walks  of  life,  carrying  a  large  l)ag  in  her  hand  and 
two  small  children  hanging  to  her  skirts.  She  took  a  seat  in  the 
station  not  far  from  him,  and  he  noticed  that  she  looked  care-worn 
and  perturbed.  Presently  he  saw  a  woman  come  through  a  door 
leading  into  the  waiting  room.  She  had  on  a  white  cap  and  a  white 
apron,  and  she  went  to  this  woman  and  said  a  word  to  her  and  wem 
out.  Presently  she  returned  with  two  pillows  and  a  coverlet.  She 
beckoned  to  the  woman,  and  she  went  and  laid  down  on  a  settee  in 
one  corner  of  the  room,  and  was  covered  up,  and  the  woman  with 
the  white  apron  and  the  white  cap  went  out  of  the  room  again,  and 
presently  returned  with  two  glasses  of  milk  and  a  cup  of  tea  and 
handed  them  to  the  woman  and  her  children.  He  said,  "The  thing 
was  so  unlike  an}-thing  that  I  had  ever  seen  in  the  East,  that  I 
pinched  nnself  to  see  if  I  were  really  alive.''  And  since  I  have  been 
sitting  here  tonight,  and  considered  that  it  is  many  years  since  I 
have  looked  forward  to  this  event — I  sav  many  years,  some  years — 
to  this  event,  and  now  that  I  am  sitting  at  the  table  with  a  man  a 
hundred  years  old,  I  feel  like  pinching  myself  to  see  if  I  am  really 
alive. 

It  is  such  an  unusual  occasion.  I  do  not  remember  to  have 
ever  seen  any  one  who  had  talked  with  a  person  a  hundred  years  old 
until  now.  In  the  summer,  in  the  August  of  1865,  I  drove  into 
West  Chester  with  a  friend  from  ]\larvland,  let  me  sav  from  that 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  5 

town  whicli  is  known  as  a  Ciretna  Clreen,  where  so  nian\-  people  go 
to  get  married.  I"^ll<tiin.  [  droxe  into  IClkion  with  Dr.  I  ling,  later 
of  Paris,  and  lie  said,  "1  want  to  take  \()n  u])  into  Chester  County  to 
see  my  old  preceptor.  Dr.  McClellan,  of  Cochranvi'le."  We  called 
on  Dr.  McClellan,  and  then  he  said  lo  me,  "Xow  1  want  yon  to  go 
with  me  to  West  Chester  to  call  upon  Dr.  Jesse  Green,"  and  he  said, 
"He  is  a  man  that  you  will  be  glad  to  meet."  So  in  August,  1865, 
or  fifty-two  years  ago.  1  first  met  Dr.  Green.  To  show  you  what  a 
memory  he  has,  a  year  ago  today  I  spent  part  of  the  afternoon  with 
him  and  1  said,  "Doctor,  we  have  known  eacli  other  a  good  manv 
years."  He  said,  "Yes.  I  first  met  thee  in  1865.  Thee  and  Dr. 
Bing  called  upon  me  in  the  summer  of  1865."  "\'es/'  1  said,  '"you  are 
right." 

But  I  can  tell  you  another  instance  where  his  memory  was 
e(|uall_\-  gi)()d.  In  1876  Dr.  Green  and  myself  were  ap])()inted  1)\-  the 
State  Society  of  Pennsylvania  examiners  for  candidates  for  their 
license  from  the  State  of  IVnnsylvania.  It  was  our  dut\-  un  (ic- 
casion  to  go  to  Pittsburgh  or  to  sit  in  Philadelphia  or  elsewhere  and 
examine  canrlidates  for  their  licenses.  On  one  occasion  we  went  to 
Pittsburgh,  and  we  spent  a  day  or  two  or  more  there.  When  we 
retm-ned  we  werj  corivinced  that  we  had  been  to  the  dirtiest  city  in 
the  world,  and  it  took  us  some  days  to  get  that  dirt  ofT  of  us.  We 
occasionally  referred  to  our  tri])  to  Pittsburgh  and  the  dirt  we  en- 
countered there,  but  1  don't  think  an\-  details  of  that  visit  were  men- 
tirncd.  More  th'in  forty  years  after  tliat  1  sat  at  dinner  with  him 
on.e  night  and  he  said.  "Doctor  Dar])y.  does  thee  remember  that  trip 
we  r.iale  to  Pitt.-.burgh?"  I  said.  "Yes."  "W'ell,"  he  said,  "does 
thee  remember  a  foreigner,  a  Russian  1  think  he  was,  whom  we  ex- 
amined, and  Udue  of  us  could  ask  him  a  (piestion  that  he  could  not 
answer.'"  1  said,  "i  do  remember  that  there  was  a  very  bright  man, 
a  fcn-eigner,  there."  "Well."  he  said.  "dt)es  thee  remember  that  he 
didn't  have  $30  to  pay  for  his  license?"  I  remembered  that  be- 
cause I  was  treasurer  of  the  Board,  and  two  or  three  weeks  after- 
ward he  came  to  West  Chester  and  ]):iid  his  $30  and  took  liis 
license.      .So  a  memory  like  that  is  something. 

When  _\(iur  president  wrote  me  asking  me  if  I  would  speak  on 
this  occasion,  I  replied  that  1  would,  and  he  said  he  would  like  me  to 
say  something  about   dentistry  in    1S17  and    T()1T.  but  he   said.  "I 


0  THIRTEENTH    ANNUAL    BANQUET 

hope  the  most  of  your  remarks  will  be  upon  Dr.  Green."  That  re- 
minded me  of  a  story  that  I  once  heard  of  a  man,  a  good  country 
deacon,  who  took  a  check  for  a  large  sum  of  money  to  a  bank  to  be 
cashed.  He  handetl  it  in  and  the  cashier  said  to  him,  "What  de- 
nomination will  you  have  "  "Well,"  he  said,  I  will  take  some 
iMethodist  and  some  Presbyterian,  but  I  will  take  the  heft  of  it  in 
hard-shell  Baptists."  (Laughter.)  Dr.  Philips  wants  me  to  devote 
the  most  of  my  time  to  Dr.  Green,  and  I  am  not  going  to  take  very 
much  of  your  time.     Perhaps  I  can  not  make  better  use  of  the  time 

1  have  than  to  devote  it  to  Dr.  Green.  However,  I  will  say  this,  to 
comply  with  the  promise.  When  Dr.  Green  began  life  dentistry 
was  not  a  profession.  It  was  far  from  it.  If  I  may  go  back  a  few 
years  earlier,  during  or  up  to  the  time  of  the  Revolutionary  War, 
there  was  but  one  dentist  in  America.  Robert  Wolfendale  came  to 
this  country  in  1765,  and  remained  here  two  years  and  went  Dack  to 
England.  The  next  dentist  that  anything  was  known  of  in  this 
country  was  a  man  by  the  name  of  LeMair,  who  came  over  from 
the  French  Army  and  was  cjuartered  during  the  war  at  Providence, 
Rhode  Island.  While  there  he  taught  Josiah  Flagg,  a  young  man 
of  18  or  20,  what  he  knew  of  dentistry,  and  Dr.  Flagg  located  in 
Boston  soon  after  the  war  was  over  and  continued  there  until  the 
time  of  his  death.  The  next  following  LeMair — I  was  going  to  say 
Dr.  Hudson,  but  there  was  one  who  antedated  him.  However, 
when  LeMair  came  to  this  country,  it  was  during  the  War  of  the 
Revolution.  After  the  revolution  was  over  he  continued  to  practice 
for  a  short  time,  as  did  Dr.  Flagg,  his  pupil,  in  Boston.  But  soon 
after  that  came  Gardette,  to  Philadelphia.  Dr.  Green  I  think  will 
remember  the  elder  Gardette  as  well  as  the  son,  who  were  in  practice 
up  to  perhaps  1835  or  thereabouts.  It  was  not  until  1839  that  it 
could  be  said  of  dentistry  that  it  was  a  profession,  because  no  calling 
is  a  profession  until  it  has  a  literature  of  its  own  and  until  it  has 
schools  for  the  education  of  its  students.  There  were  no  such 
schools,  there  was  no  literature,  to  the  time  that  Dr.  Green  was 
born.  In  1839  the  Baltimore  College  of  Dental  Surgery  was 
founded,  and  then  such  men  as  are  very  familiar  to  Dr.  Green  who 
were  concerned  in  that  were  Henry  H.  Hagen  and  Chapin  A.  Har- 
ris, and  such  men  as  Gardette,  of  Philadelphia,  both  the  elder  and  the 
younger,  and  Dr.  Robert  Arthur,  of  Baltimore,  and  men  of  that 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  7 

type.  But  the  man  with  whom  Dr.  Green  was  probably  the  most 
famiHar,  or  whom  he  met  in  the  early  associations,  were  men  like 
Chapin  A.  Harris,  like  Joheil  and  Elisha  Palmer,  of  Syracuse,  John 
B.  Rich,  of  New  York.  All  of  those  men  were  contemporary  with 
Dr.  Green,  but  Dr.  Green  has  outlived  them  all.  Dr.  J(jhn  Rich 
came  nearer  to  attaining  the  age  to  which  Dr.  Green  has  attained 
than  any  of  those  whom  I  have  mentioned.  In  fact  T  have  never 
known  a  dentist  who  has  reached  the  age  of  one  hundred.  Dr. 
Gordon  Palmer  came  very  near  it.  I  wrote  Dr.  Green  a  year  or  two 
ago  saying,  "I  have  just  cut  a  clipping  from  the  'Dental  journal' 
which  I  enclose,  stating  that  Dr.  Palmer  is  the  oldest  dentist  in  the 
w^orld.  I  know  that  this  is  not  true.  You  antedate  him  \)y  at  least 
two  years  I  think."  I  sent  this  clipping  anfl  in  a  few  days  1  received 
a  beautiful  letter  from  him,  beautifully  written  I  mean — in  which  he 
said,  "The  editor  or  the  author  of  this  clipping  you  sent  me  is  wrong. 
I  was  born  in  1817.  Mr.  Palmer  was  born  in  i(S20."  He  antedated 
him  by  nearly  three  years. 

But  now  to  get  back  to  Dr.  Green  himself.  As  I  say,  I  have 
known  Dr.  Green  for  more  than  fifty  years.  He  was  good  enough 
when  I  was  a  very  young  man,  and  I  was  starting  in  Philadelphia, 
to  let  me  come  to  his  home,  and  Mrs.  Darby  and  I  often  spent  Sun- 
day with  him  at  his  own  house  here  in  West  Chester.  His  children 
were  living  at  his  luMiie  then.  One  of  the  things  that  impressed  me 
at  that  time,  and  im])resses  me  now,  is  that  he  was  a  man  of  great 
industry.  He  was  everlastingly  at  work.  If  he  was  not  at  work  in 
his  profession,  he  was  at  work  on  something  equally  interesting  to 
him  and  equally  important  to  others.  He  kept  the  weather  record. 
With,  great  diligence  and  punctuality  he  made  these  records.  I  re- 
member that  three  times  a  day  he  would  take  the  wind  gauge,  the 
water  fall,  the  condition  of  the  tliermometer  and  barometer,  note  it 
down  in  his  book,  and  at  the  end  of  the  month  that  report  went  to 
Washington. 

But  that  was  not  half  that  he  did.  He  was  collecting  all  the 
time,  and  he  probably  has  today  one  of  the  best  collections  of  Conti- 
nental money  extant.  lie  has  one  of  the  greatest  collections  of 
"shin  plasters"  that  were  issued  during  the  Civil  War.  He  has  in 
addition  to  that  fractional  curroncx  of  almost  ever\-  kind  and  everv 
degree,  besides  bank  notes,  state  notes  and  the  like.      In  fact,  there 


O  THIRTEENTH    ANNUAL    RANQUET 

is  hardly  a  thing  of  interest  that  he  has  not  gathered  together,  and 
autographs  and  letters  innumerable.  Some  of  the  happiest  hours  I 
have  ever  spent  with  him  were  spent  with  him  in  a  place  that  you 
ladies  of  the  audience  prol)ably  never  saw,  and  that  was  his  work 
shop,  a  work  shop  where  he  did  almost  everything,  from  the  mak- 
ing of  a  fishing  tackle  or  fishing  rod  to  a  microscope;  and  he  made 
with  his  own  hands  two  or  three  most  iK'autiful  microscopes,  copied 
after  the  best  instruments  made  ])y  the  great  Joseph  Zentmayer,  of 
Philadelphia.  They  were  not  amateur  work.  It  was  the  work  of  a 
skilled  mechanic,  antl  I  have  no  doubt  those  will  go  down  perhaps 
with  this  very  Society  as  illustrations  of  his  manual  skill. 

But  furthermore,  in  that  shop  of  his  he  could  show  you  the  his- 
tory of  dentistry  from  almost  the  earliest  period,  I  think,  beginning 
as  he  did,  before  there  were  dental  schools,  beginning  as  he  did  be- 
fore there  was  anything  l)ut  a  preceptor,  who  would  give  you  just  so 
much  for  so  nnich  money  and  no  more.  He  would  tell  you  just  how 
little  he  could  for  so  nmch  money  and  that  was  all.  Today  dentistry 
professes  to  be  a  liberal  profession.  We  give  everything  we  know 
for  nothing.  We  tell  all  we  know  and  sometimes  we  tell  a  lot  more 
than  we  know,  and  give  it  to  people  for  nothing.  Dr.  Green  had  a 
preceptor,  I  suppose,  but  the  most  that  he  did  and  the  most  that  he 
has  done  during  his  life  has  been  reached  and  worked  out  of  his  own 
brain.  Away  back  in  the  early  years  of  his  own  practice  he  took 
the  kaolin  and  feldspar  and  the  silex  from  the  ([uarry.  ground  it  into 
powder,  carved  his  own  teeth,  and  baked  them  in  the  oven,  enam- 
eled them,  re-baked  them,  and  riveted  them  to  the  gold  and  silver 
plates,  and  those  teeth — I  have  no  doul)t  there  are  scores  and  scores 
or  thousands  of  them  buried  with  those  who  wear  them  (Laughter 
and  applause).  That  was  dental  art,  that  was  dental  skill,  and  Dr. 
Green  possessed  that  in  a  wonderful  degree. 

One  moment  more.  When  T  came  to  sec  more.  When  I  came 
to  see  Dr.  Green  in  1865,  he  was  just  about  as  busy  a  man  as  I  ever 
saw.  His  olHice,  his  waiting  room,  was  tilled  with  patients.  Most 
of  them  I  judge  belonged  to  the  Society  of  iM-iends.  because  his 
practice  was  made  up  largely  of  those  sweet-faced  old  ladies  that  I 
saw  in  his  of^ce.  When  I  say  old  ladies,  I  mean  ladies  of  all  ages. 
His  office  was  filled  with  them.  He  was  flying  back  and  forth  from 
his  operating  room  to  his  laboratory  or  w<M-k  shop,  and  he  went 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  9 

back  and  forth  like  a  flash  of  Hghtning  from  one  to  the  other,  and 
after  a  little  he  had  time  to  come  and  say  to  me,  "Xow  just  wait  a 
few  minutes,  I  want  to  see  you.  Wait  a  few  minutes  and  I  will  give 
you  all  the  time  there  is."  We  waited  and  in  due  course  of  time 
we  had  a  lovel\'  conversation  with  him,  and  then  our  friendship  be- 
gan. I  say  to  you,  fellow  friends  of  his,  those  of  you  that  have  lived 
with  him  for  many,  many  years,  know  that  his  character  is  beyond 
reproach;  that  he  is  a  genial,  gentlemanl}-,  lovely  character.  And 
may  I  say  to  you  (turning  to  Dr.  Green),  my  honorable  friend,  my 
dear  old  friend  of  fifty  years,  that  my  one  hope  now  is  that  you  may 
live  to  see  many  returns  of  this  glorious  day.  Way  God  be  with 
you  and  keep  you,  and  may  you  be  a  blessing  to  us  as  you  have  been 
a  ])lessing  to  all  who  ha\e  known  you.     (Prolonged  applause.) 


Dr.  Philips:  The  members  of  our  Society  feel  that  no  oc- 
casion like  this  is  complete  without  our  having  a  suitable  poem  from 
our  friend  and  fellow-countian.  Professor  John  Russell  Hayes,  and 
I  am  sure  that  he  has  something  good  for  us  tonight. 


10  THIRTEENTH    ANNUAL    BANQUET 


Remarks  of  Prof.  John  Russell  Hayes 

ROFESSOR  HAYES:  Mr.  Toastmaster,  Dr.  Green  and 
Friends:  I  rememl)er,  forty  or  more  years  ago,  when  I 
was  a  boy,  I  used  to  think  of  certainly  what  seemed  to  me 
venerable  _i^entlemen  as  the  types  of  the  gentlemen  of 
the  old  school,  of  which  Dr.  Green  is  the  oldest  living  exam- 
ple.— Addison  May  and  Washington  Townsend  and  Frank- 
lin Pyle  and  Joseph  J.  Lewis  and  Dr.  Green.  You  know 
children  look  upon  middle  age  as  very  venerable,  and  I  thought  of 
Dr.  Green  and  his  friends  as  rather  ancient  gentlemen  then.  But 
now  that  I  am  in  middle  life  myself,  comparatively  speaking,  he 
seems  to  me  more  youthful  than  he  seemed  to  the  wondering  eyes 
of  childhood. 

Our  Grand  Old  Man 

Some  men  resemble  comets  in  their  fiijjht, — 

They  flame  a  while,  then  vanish  from  the  sight, 
Not  so  our  ccnturicd  friend;  in  him  wc  find 

Ihe  long  career  that  crowns  the  trancinil  mind. 
The  full  ripe  years  of  joy  and  peace  that  bless 

Ilis  ordered  life  of  calm  and  quietness. 
And  his  serene  rlnlosoiihy  that  teaches 

As  fine  a  faith  as  many  a  i)u1pit  preaches. 

The  Quaker  virtues  which  he  learned  in  ynuth 
Have  yielded  him  their  beauty  and  their  truth: 

Serenity  and  wisdom,  as  we  know. 

And  strong  good  sense,  have  filled  to  overflow — 

Through  decade  after  decade  in  its  flight — 
His  classic  head  so  canny  and  so  white. 

O  for  the  healtli  like  his  that  can  defy 

The  pleasant  pains  of  terrapin  and  pie, 
That  laughs  at  doctors,  and  that  gives  such  sleep 

As  ev'ery  morning  brings  thanksgiving  deep! 
Rugged  and  ripe  and  ruddy,  still  he  fares 

About  his  daily  tasks,  his  little  cares, 
With  bonhomie  and  buoyancy  that  tell 

Of  sunny  seasons  wisely  spent  and  well. 


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Sunny! — I  think  it  is  the  very  word 

For  this  Old  Bov  as  bonnie  as  a  bird! 
Our  sunny-hearted  friend,  of  sunny  life, 

Knows  not  the  clouds  of  foolish  hate  and  strife, 
Sunshine  and  cheer  and  love  have  had  their  part 

In  keeping  warm  his  ever-youthful  heart; 
And  were  all  men  as  wise  and  just  as  he, 

I  know  that  woeful  war  could  never  be. 

O,  would  such  words  were  mine  that  I  might  say 

How  much  we  love  and  honor  him  today! 
This  crowded  room,  these  thronging  friends,  but  tell 

How  all  the  land  this  ni.j;ht  is  wishing  well 
To  him,  the  sunny-hearted  and  serene, 
Our  Grand  Old  Man. — our    well-loved 
JESSE  GREEN. 

John  Russell  Hayes. 


Dr.  Philips:  Our  next  speaker  has  been  a  resident  of  this 
county  only  fifteen  or  sixteen  years,  and  he  is  therefore  still  only  a 
probationer.  Hut  we  have  all  learned  that  when  we  want  to  know 
something  of  the  history  of  Qiester  Cotmty,  or  of  anywhere  else  for 
that  matter,  we  cannot  get  it  l)etter  or  more  interestingly  than  from 
Professor  Buriduim,  and  we  are  very  glad  to  have  him  with  us 
tonight. 


J2  THIRTEENTH    ANNUAL    BANQUET 


Remarks   of  Prof.    Smith   BurnKam 

|R.  TOASTMASTER,  DR.  GREEN,  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 
Dr.  Philips  has  very  well  said  that  modesty  ought  to  require 
an  adopted  son  of  this  county  to  remain  quietly  seated  on 
an  evening  like  this.  It  has  not  been  my  good  fortune  to 
know  Dr.  Green  personally  very  much,  and  yet  I  have  lived  in  Ches- 
ter County,  and  in  this  borough  of  West  Chester,  long  enough  to 
appreciate  and  to  feel  something  of  that  honor  and  respect  which  we 
all  bring  him  tonight.  Dr.  Philips,  when  he  asked  me  to  speak, 
said  that  I  should  briefly  contrast  or  describe  the  age  in  which  Dr. 
Green  appeared  upon  the  scene  of  life,  and  our  present  time.  That 
is  a  pretty  big  jol),  to  attempt  to  describe  the  West  Cnester  of  today 
and  the  Chester  County  of  today  and  the  world  of  today  compared 
with  the  world,  so  different  from  the  one  we  now  know,  upon  which 
this  grand  old  man  appeared  a  hundred  years  ago.  And  yet  it 
seemed  to  me  that  if  I  were  to  attempt  it  at  all,  for  the  sake  of  his- 
torical accuracy  I  ought  at  least  to  Ijack  up  my  statements  with 
documentary  proof,  and  so  1  have  a  couple  of  documents  here  that  I 
would  like  to  introduce  in  evidence.  I  believe.  Judge  Hause,  that  is 
the  way  to  do  it  in  court? 

Judge  Hause:     Entirely  proper. 

Professor  Burnum:  This  one,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  (unfold- 
ing paper)  as  a  picture  of  the  comnumity  of  West  Chester  on  the 
thirteenth  day  of  December,  1917.  It  is  today's  copy  of  the  Local 
Neivs.  I  introduce  it  in  lieu  of  any  attempt  to  describe  this  borough 
at  the  present  time,  because  if  you  would  know  what  West  Chester 
is,  who  the  people  are  who  live  in  West  Qiester,  what  they  do  and 
the  things  they  don't  do,  read  the  Local  Nczvs.  Moreover,  you  will 
get,  beyond  that,  the  news  of  the  world.  That  is  one  of  the  striking 
contrasts  between  now  and  a  hundred  years  ago.  I  notice  in  the 
paper  of  this  afternoon  late  news  of  Copenhagen  and  Stockholm 
and  Rome.     You  know  how  long  it  took  to  get  news  from  those 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  I3 

places  when  Doctor  Green  was  a  boy?  Xot  on  the  same  clav,  I 
want  to  assure  you.  And  then  there  is  every  other  phase  of  Hfe, — 
society  and  poHtics  and  business,  and  the  "What  Thev  Sav" 
column,  said  to  be  the  most  read  part  of  the  paper.  I  simplv  sul)- 
mit  this,  stopping  in  passing-  to  say  that  I  have  never  seen  in  the 
United  States  a  local  paper  in  a  town  of  this  size  that  can  compare 
in  real  merit  with  the  Local  A^czi's. 

Xow,  ladies  and  gentlemen,  I  would  like  to  introduce  Xo.  2. 
This  is  a  picture  of  the  West  Chester  of  a  hundred  years  ago.  I 
could  not  get  one  for  the  exact  day,  the  13th  of  December,  1817, 
because  they  only  published  a  newspaper  once  a  week.  But  this  is 
the  local  paper  of  West  Chester,  The  Chester  and  Delaware  County 
Federalist  for  Wednesday,  December  17th,  1817.  the  week  corre- 
spending  with  tliis  week,  and  the  week  in  which  our  good  old  friend 
made  his  Ijow  U])()n  this  mundane  s])here.  Here,  then,  it  is  a  verv 
different  world  that  you  have  pictured  in  this  paper.  In  tlie  first 
place,  there  isn't  a  word  of  what  w^e  will  call  news  in  it.  Tliere  are 
seven  colunuis  of  the  sixteen  columns  devoted  to  advertising  real 
estate  for  sale.  Evidently  Chester  County  is  a  better  place  than  it 
was  in  1817.  Most  of  the  folks  seem  to  have  been  trying  to  sell  out 
and  move  away  from  here,  and  1  notice  that  a  number  of  those  who 
advertise  their  property  for  sale  add  that  the}  are  proposing  to  sell 
because  they  want  to  go  to  the  western  country.  You  see  that  is 
where  the  good  folks  all  went  in  those  days.  Some  of  them  came 
back.  11iere  was  a  reason  for  all  this  advertising  of  land  for  sale. 
Times  were  very  hard  in  1817,  for  the  war  of  1812  had  been  hitting 
this  country  where  it  lived  then. 

Furthermore,  the  western  countrv  was  just  then  developing. 
The  State  of  Illinois  is  one  year  \ounger  than  Dr.  Green.  The 
State  of  Indiana  is  one  year  older  than  he  is.  The  State  of  Missis- 
sippi was  born  the  same  year  that  he  was,  and  there  were  two  or 
three  other  states  that  came  into  the  Union  within  two  or  three 
years  of  the  time  of  liis  birth.  It  was  just  tlu'  time  when  the  East 
was  overflo\\ing  into  the  West. — that  great  migratory  movement 
wliich  followed  the  War  of  i8t2. 

There  are  many  other  interesting  things  in  this  paper.  Things 
for  sale — it  doesn't  altogether  compare  with  the  sort  of  stuff  that 
the  American  Stores  Comi)an\-  puts  into  tlie  ])aper  todav.     I  notice 


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tliat  the  fact  that  goods  are  imported  seems  to  be  the  main  thing, 
"Ships  just  arrived  with  frish  Hnens  and  skins  and  coatings  and 
flannels."  After  giving  a  long  list  of  goods  of  this  sort,  the  adver- 
tisement winds  up  by  saying,  "We  also  have  in  stock  queensware, 
groceries,  medicines,  hardware,  drugs  and  paints," — a  comljination 
you  probably  wouldn't  find  in  any  store  in  West  Chester  at  the 
present  time. 

There  are  some  other  differences  between  that  time  and  now 
suggested  by  this  paper.  I  don't  remember  ever  having  seen  the 
complete  text  of  the  message  of  the  Governor  of  Pennsylvania  in 
the  Local  News.  It  may  be  possible.  The  complete  text  of  the 
message  of  Governor  Snyder  in  in  this  paper,  three  solid  columns 
of  it.  But  President  Monroe,  who  was  sending  his  first  message  to 
Congress  in  this  same  month,  gets  two  lines:  "The  leading  Federal 
prints  speak  of  the  President's  message  in  terms  of  high  approba- 
tion." That  message  had  been  sent  in  about  two  weeks  before 
that  two-line  statement  appeared  in  the  local  paper  in  West  Chester 
in  those  days.  More  land  for  sale  on  page  3;  not  a  single  personal 
item  in  tlie  whole  paper,  beyond  the  two-line  statement  or  two  and 
a  half  lines,  that  "Mrs.  Isabella  Philips,  of  this  borough,  hr^^s  just 
died  in  an  advanced  year  of  her  age,  after  a  long  and  painful  illness." 
That  is  the  only  item  of  news  there  is  in  the  whole  paper. 

Our  friends  a  hundred  years  ago  had  one  thing  on  the 
Local  Nci^'s.  This  is  a  far  more  literary  journal  than  the  Local  News. 
One  fourth  of  the  whole  paper  is  devoted  to  literature,  the  real  thing. 
Half  a  column  is  devoted  to  a  local  poet.  He  doesn't  choose  to 
sign  his  name.  Nearly  tw^o  columns  of  an  essay  on  the  subject  of 
slavery,  or  rather  anti-slavery.  Even  at  that  early  time  this  good 
old  Chester  County  stood  for  the  freedom  of  the  slaves.  The  local 
paper  a  hundred  years  ago  was  running  a  novelized  version  of  the 
"The  Merchant  of  A'enice"  as  a  continued  story.  It  has  a  few 
anecdotes  about  George  Whitefield,  and  then — remember  that  this 
was  just  after  the  War  of  1812 — it  has  this  interesting  news  item 
from  Washington  City,  with  some  local  comment: 

'•November  29th."  That  is  the  news  from  Washington  City  of 
November  29th  appears  in  the  West  Chester  paper  of  December 
T^tli.  That  shows  something  of  how  the  news  traveled.  This  is 
the  item  quoted: 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  1 5 

"Mr.  Incledon  was  received  last  night  l)y  a  fashionable  and 
overflfnving  audience.  Mis  merits  were  acknowledged  by  universal 
shouts  of  applause  from  every  quarter  of  the  house.  Though 
somewhat  impeded  in  the  execution  of  the  final  notes  from  the 
efTect  of  a  slight  cold  which  he  contracted  in  coming  from  Baltimore 
(where  his  voice  is  reported  to  have  been  in  the  best  order)  yet  his 
performance  was  truly  gratifying." 

The  art  critics  of  West  Ch.ester  in  those  days  comments  on  that 
subject  in  the  following  words: 

"The  subjoined  paragraph  is  of  tt:io  momentous  and  interesting 
a  nature  to  pass  over  without  special  notice.  What  a  pity  that  Air. 
Incledon  should  have  been  so  unfortunate  as  to  have  taken  cold! 
How  unfortunate  for  the  good  people  of  Washington,  but  how 
charming  must  have  been  his  voice  at  Baltimore  wlien  it  was  in  the 
'best  order."  He  had  better  get  a  certificate  of  it.  C),  exquisite! 
I'hilli]>s  in  Xew  York,  Incledon  in  Philadelphia,  Tweedledum  in  the 
Xorth,  Twcedledee  in  the  South,  both  just  imported.  How  is 
plain  Brother  jonothan  l)ewitched  with  th.e  follies  of  John  Bull!" 

That  is  a  picture  of  the  comnnmity  a  hundred  years  ago,  and  I 
have  no  douljt  it  is  a  fairly  accurate  picture  of  what  they  thought 
and  talked  aI)out  in  those  days.  It  is  a  faint  ])icture  of  West 
Chester.  You  cannot  furnish  contemporary  evidences  of  all  the  dif- 
ferences, but  possibly  tradition  might  be  called  into  service.  Doc- 
tor William  Darlington  was  res])onsible,  I  think,  for  the  statement 
that  in  the  West  Chester  of  those  days,  when  the  winter  came  on, 
the  ladies  all  hibernated  until  the  frost  was  well  out  of  the  ground  in 
the  next  spring.  We  have  beautiful  evidence  here  tonight  that  all 
that  sort  of  thing  has  passed  away  so  far  as  West  Chester  is  con- 
cerned. 

It  was  a  wonderful  world  into  wliich  our  old  friend  was  born 
l)ack  in  1817.  It  is  very  ancient  history,  from  our  point  of  view, 
most  of  it  forgotten. — just  two  years  after  Napoleon  Bonaparte  had 
fallen  from  ])ower.  He  was  living  on  that  liltle  Rock  Island  down 
in  the  South  Atlantic.  It  was  just  two  years  before  Andrew  Jack- 
son won  his  famous  victory  on  the  field  of  New  Orleans.  Dr. 
Green  was  six  years  old  when  the  Monroe  Doctrine  was  born. 
There  were  nineteen  states  in  the  l^nion  instead  of  forty-eight,  when 
he  entered  the  Union.     The  European  world  had  just  come  out  of 


l6  THIRTEENTH    ANNUAL    BANQUET 

a  war  of  a  quarter  of  a  century.  The  United  States  had  just  passed 
through  the  War  of  1812.  We  had  hardly  anything  hke  the  indus- 
trial system  that  we  know  to-day.  In  fact,  the  first  high  tariff  law 
was  passed  the  year  before  Dr.  Cireen  was  born.  We  were  just  be- 
ginning to  build  up  American  manufactures,  which  had  been  stimu- 
lated by  the  high-tariff  law  of  18 16. 

However,  you  don't  want  to  hear  me  talk  ancient  history  very 
long.  Let  me  just  suggest  very  briefly  three  or  four  great  changes 
that  this  good  man  has  seen  come  over  this  world  of  ours  in  the 
last  hundred  years.  I  suspect  that  the  changes  in  his  life  time,  in  all 
the  fundamantal  ways  of  living  and  thinking,  are  greater  than  the 
changes  of  five  hundred  years  before  that  time. 

In  the  first  place,  the  most  significant  of  all  for  the  life  we  all 
live,  he  has  lived  through  the  time  that  we  know  as  the  industrial 
revolution.  He  was  born  into  a  world  of  household  industries. 
There  was  hardly  anywhere  in  this  country  in  those  days  what  we 
would  call  a  factory  in  the  modern  sense  of  the  word.  He  came 
into  a  world  where  probably  90  per  cent,  of  all  the  people  lived  in 
country  homes.  He  is  today  in  a  country  where,  by  the  census  of 
1910,  a  little  more  than  30  per  cent,  of  the  people  listed  in  gainful 
occupations  make  a  living  in  agriculture  and  not  more  than  50 
per  cent,  of  the  people  live  in  what  you  might  call  rural  conditions. 
That  is  a  wonderful  change  in  itself,  due  to  the  changes  in  industry, 
the  outgrowth  of  invention,  the  development  of  power.  There  was 
not  in  the  United  States  a  mile  of  railroad  or  a  locomotive.  The 
first  successful  steamboat  had  been  in  operation  about  eight  years 
when  Dr.  Green  was  born,  and  if  we  come  down  through  the  years, 
McCormick  and  Hoe  and  Goodyear  and  Morse  and  Field  and 
Edison,  and  all  the  other  great  inventors  who  have  given  us  the 
machinery  that  lightens  labor  and  transforms  industry,  were  doing 
their  work.  This  man  is  a  contemporary  of  all  the  men  I  have 
mentioned.  So  he  has  seen  our  modern  industrial  world  come  to  he 
what  it  is  today. 

P.ut  after  all,  there  have  been  other  great  changes.  Perhaps 
the  most  significant  political  change  in  the  last  hundred  years  has 
been  the  growth  of  democracy.  We  were  starting  here  in  America, 
in  his  boyhood,  an  experiment,  an  experiment,  thirty  or  forty  years 
of  age  at  that  time,  an  experiment  in  democratic  self-government, 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  ly 

which,  had  hardly  touched  the  rest  of  the  workl.  The  downfall  of 
Napoleon  in  1815  meant  a  reaction  in  favor  of  absolutism  probably 
everywhere  in  Europe.  And  so  the  life  span  of  this  man,  our  hon- 
ored guest  here  tonight,  covers  that  period  of  time  when  the  seed 
of  democracy,  planted  down  there  in  Independence  Hall  in  Philadel- 
phia, in  the  immortal  statement  in  the  opening  paragra])hs  of  the 
Declaration  of  Independence,  has  been  scattered  broadcast,  has 
taken  root  in  the  fertile  soil  of  the  love  of  liberty  in  the  hearts  of  the 
people  in  the  countries  of  the  world,  and  has  given  us  the  great 
boon  of  self-governing  nations  that  are  leagued  together  at  tliis 
hour  to  make  the  last  great  fight  to  make  democracy  safe  every- 
where.    (Applause.) 

He  has  seen  the  making  of  the  American  nation,  for  the  nine- 
teen little  States  of  1817  were  not  a  nation.  Men  did  not  think  of  it 
in  that  way.  In  those  days  men  used  to  resign  from  the  Ignited 
States  Senate  to  become  members  of  their  State  Legislature.  Who 
would  think  of  doing  anything  of  that  sort  now?  The  emi)hasis 
was  on  the  state.  The  state  was  the  im{X)rtant  thing.  But  during 
the  last  hundred  years  the  country  has  been  welded  together  by 
common  interests,  a  common  past,  tied  together  by  ropes  of  steel 
and  iron,  by  its  great  rivers,  arteries  of  steam])oats.  welded  together 
physically  in  the  awful  flame  of  the  war  which  saved  the  l^nion  and 
made  the  country  free  from  the  curse  of  slavery,  and  following  that 
the  wonderful  development  of  nationality  of  the  last  fifty  vears.  We 
sometimes  hear  the  voice  of  criticism  in  regard  to  the  lack  of  unitv 
in  America  today.  I  want  to  say  to  you,  my  friends,  and  I  speak  as 
one  who  has  studied  something  of  the  history  of  the  United  States, 
that  while  we  may  criticize,  there  never  was  an  hour  in  its  history, 
certainly  never  at  the  opening  of  any  of  its  historic  wars,  when  the 
American  people  were  so  united,  so  possessed  of  a  solidarity  of 
thought  and  purpose,  as  they  are  today.  (Applause.)  That  united 
solidarity,  that  sense  of  nationality,  is  a  growth.  It  did  not  come  all 
at  once,  and  this  man,  our  guest,  has  seen  that.  He  Iras  been  a 
]:)art  of  it.     He  has  lived  through  it. 

May  I  mention  before  I  close  one  other  thing?  He  has  seen 
one  of  the  most  remarkable  contributions  to  the  intellectual  life  of 
the  world,  the  intellectual  growth  of  the  last  hundred  years  has  been 
quite  as  remarkable  as  its  industrial  or  political  growth.     In  the 


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field  of  literature  he  is  the  contemporary  of  Emerson  and  of  Haw- 
thorne, and  of  Lowell  and  of  Foe  and  of  Washington  Irving.  He 
is  a  contemporary  of  Tennyson  and  of  Browning,  of  Mctor  Hugo 
and  of  Tolstoi.  The  great  men  whose  names  make  glorious  the 
Images  of  literature  in  the  last  hundred  years  are  his  contemporaies. 
And  then  what  a  list  migiit  be  given  of  those  who  in  the  field  of 
science  have  given  us  the  modern  conception  of  life,  the  Darwins 
and  the  Wallaces  and  the  Spencers  and  the  Huxleys,  and  the  more 
recent  great  names  who  have  given  us  antiseptic  surgery,  who  have 
developed  the  germ  theory  of  disease  and  who  have  given  us  all  these 
recent  inventions  which  have  made  our  world  the  progressive  world 
that  it  is  today! 

It  is  a  great  thing  to  have  seen  this,  and  as  we  have  heard 
tonight,  to  have  been  no  small  part  in  the  development  of  this  great 
forward  movement  of  civilization,  with  its  amelioration  of  human 
suft'ering,  with  its  phinanthropy  and  its  huinanitarianism.  with  its 
finer  spiritual  nature,  when  we  compare  it  with  the  world  in  which 
we  lived  a  hundred  years  ago. 

And  I  must  not  stop  without  saying  one  word  more,  that  this 
wonderful  century  through  which  our  friend  has  lived,  this  wonder- 
ful new  century  in  which  he  enters  tomorrow  morning  and  in  which 
we  hope  he  will  live  for  a  long  time  and  see  a  great  deal  more  of 
this  progress,  begins  at  a  time  when  all  that  has  been  meant  in  a 
hundred  years  of  democracy  and  lil)erty  and  hope  for  a  better  day, 
is  ensfaged  in  a  bitter  conflict  with  the  last  great  enemies  in  all  the 
world  to  these  things  that  made  the  nineteenth  century's  growth 
glorious.  Mav  it  be  his  good  fortune  to  live  to  see  the  ultimate 
triumph,  as  he  has  seen  the  growth  of  all  that  America  has  stood  for 
since  the  time  of  her  foundation.     (Applause.) 


Doctor  Pittltps:  W^e  are  glad  to  see  come  into  our  meeting 
tonight  a  former  citizen  and  indeed  a  native  of  West  Chester  and 
Chester  County,  who  is  temporarily  living  outside  of  the  county. 
But  I  am  sure  he  is  coming  back  here:  he  wants  to  live  to  be  a  cen- 
tenarian, too, — Dr.  Speakmau,  of  Swarthmore.  I  know  he  has 
something  good  for  us  tanight. 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HTSTOKICAL    SOCIETY  I9 


Remarks   of  Dr.   W.   W.   Speakman 

AM  sure  that  is  (lisa])i;()inting-  to  you,  as  it  is  unexpected  to 
me.  Jf  Doctor  IMiilips  asked  me  to  say  anything,  he 
spoke  in  a  very  hjw  voice,  for  I  have  never  heard  it  before. 
I  don't  get  a  chance  to  mingle  with  governors  and  college 
presidents  every  day,  so  I  am  going  to  take  that  opportunity  tonight. 
Mr.  Toastmaster,  Honored  Guest  of  the  Evening  and  Ladies 
and  Gentlemen.  I  have  known  Dr.  Green  for  many  years,  ever 
since  he  was  a  young  man  (laughter),  ever  since  he  was  a  young 
man  of  sixty  years  old,  and  I  have  watched  his  growth  and  his  de- 
velopment, and  I  have  seen  him  ripen  into  maturity,  but  whether  I 
will  ever  see  him  ripen  into  an  old  man  is  very  doul)tful.  lUit  1 
am  sure  tonight  that  I  feel  it  enough  honor  and  enough  privilege  to 
have  received  an  invitation,  without  the  special  ]:)rivilege  and  dis- 
tinction of  having  l^een  asked  to  i)articipate  in  this  most  wonderful 
occasion.  I  am  sure,  now  that  1  have  removed  nuself  from  the  au- 
dience, that  it  is  a  very  handsome  audience.  You  look  like  a  beau- 
tiful bouquet,  you  fair  women  and  you  handsome  men,  and  it  seems 
very  appropriate  to  me  that  at  the  head  of  this  beautigul  bouquet 
should  be  the  century  plant.  (Applause  and  Laughter.)  A  cen- 
tury plant  which  is  all  green.  (Laughter  and  A])])lause.)  And  a 
century  plant  which  tonight  is  in  full  l)loom. 

1  have  noticed  tonight  that  very  few  of  the  ladies  have  been 
asked  to  speak,  and  I  do  not  want  to  usurp  the  office  of  the  Toast- 
master,  but  I  hope  that  T  will  be  here  long  enough  to  hear  some  of 
the  ladies  tonight  speak.  It  is  not  hard  to  get  the  ladies  on  their 
feet.  .A  friend  of  mine,  a  minister,  (  1  have  some  friends  in  that 
profession)  said  that  t)ne  evening  as  he  was  about  to  conduct  his 
services  a  gentleman  approached  him  very  hurriedly,  and  very  much 
agitated,  and  wanted  to  get  married.  The  minister  said,  "Well, 
now,  my  friend,  we  are  just  al)out  to  commence  the  services  and 
there  is  no  time  to  marry  you.  The  congregation  is  here,  but  if 
you  and  xour  xoung  lad\  will  lake  a  seat  in  the  congregation  I  will 
give  vou  an  o])portunit\'  a  little  later  in  the  service  to  come  for- 
ward."" So  they  took  a  seat  in  the  audience,  and  after  a  while  the 
minister  said,  "Here  endeth  the  reading  of  the  first  lesson.     If  there 


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are  any  present  who  would  like  to  be  joined  in  the  holy  bonds  of 
matrimony,  they  may  now  come  forward."  He  said  seventeen 
women  and  one  man  got  up.  (Laughter.)  So  you  see  after  all  the 
man  had  his  pick.  He  came  in  with  one  and  had  the  opportunity 
of  choosing  from  seventeen. 

I  am  not  going  to  prolong  the  evening.  I  generally  make  my 
best  speech  out  of  what  has  preceded  me.  Tonight  I  don't  feel  at 
my  best.  I  had  two  youthful  heroes  when  I  was  a  boy  and  lived  in 
West  Chester.  One  was  Benny  Biddle,  the  ice  cream  man,  who 
used  to  start  them  aching,  and  then  Dr.  Green,  the  man  who  fixed 
them.  1  have  many  things  in  common  with  Dr.  Green,  because 
latel}-  I  often  feel  a  hundred  years  old,  which  he  is,  and  it  seems  to 
me  that  he  only  feels  the  age  that  I  am. 

Oh,  the  years  that  are  ^iltled  with  unalloyed  gold, 
Are  the  years  that  have  kept  thee  from  e'er  growing  old; 
For  the  rose  in  thy  cheek  is  as  blooming,  I  ween. 
As  on  December  13,  eighteen-seventeen. 

Thy  eye  is  undimmed.  and  undimmed  is  thj-  mirth. 

Thee  has  smiled  through  this  life  from  the  day  of  thy  birth; 

Thy  mind  is  unclouded,  and  thy  step  is  as  light, 

Good  digestion  still  follows  a  grand  appetite. 

And  many  a  molar  thee  pulled,  and  pulled  fine; 
Thee  pulled  one  for  me,  in  eighteen-sixty-nine. 
Thy  brow  is  unfurrowed.  no  wrinkles  are  seen; 
Thee  has  changed  not  a  wit,  since  1817. 

So  here's  a  good  health  to  our  guest  of  tonight, 
May  the  future  to-  follow  be  radiant  and  bright; 
May  friends  and  may  friendships  be  ricnes  untold. 
To  hold  thee  and  keep  thee  from  e'er  growing  old. 
(Prolonged  Applause.) 


Doctor  Philips:  T  don't  need  to  tell  any  one  here  that  we 
are  honored  tonight  in  having  with  us  a  man  who  a  few  years  ago 
held  the  highest  position  that  the  people  of  Pennsylvania  can  give 
to  any  man,  and  I  know  you  will  all  agree  with  me  when  I  say  that 
no  man  who  ever  was  Governar  of  this  State  was  more  honored  and 
more  highly  esteemed  than  Governor  Stuart.  He  has  done  us  a 
ereat  honor  in  being  with  us  tonight,  and  I  have  great  pleasure  in 
introducing  him  to  you. 


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Remarks   of   Governor   Stuart 

R.  CHAIRMAN,  DR.  GREEX,  and  Ladies  and  Gentlemen: 
I  really  did  not  come  tonight  to  make  any  speech  or  any 
address,  and  if  I  had.  I  would  feel  less  like  making  one 
■than  I  ever  did  in  my  life  after  listening  to  the  gentlemen 
who  have  just  spoken.  But  I  come  here  upon  an  invitation  sent  me 
by  the  President  of  your  Society  to  be  present  at  this  hundredth 
anniversary  of  the  l^rth  of  Doctor  Green,  whom  I  have  known  ever 
smce  my  boyhood.  He  first  came  into  my  life  when  I  was  a  lad, 
and  I  had  the  honor  of  waiting  upon  him  and  wra])ping  up  goods  for 
him  and  delivering  them  at  this  railroad  station  for  him.  I  am  here 
tonight  not  as  a  former  Governor  of  Pennsylvania  or  anything  of 
that  kind,  but  simply  as  a  citizen  of  Pennsylvania  to  show  my  high 
regard  and  affection  for  the  distinguished  guest  of  the  evening 
tonight. 

Every  time  I  get  on  my  feet  I  feel  a  good  deal  like  the  man  in 
the  story  told  of  the  toastmaster  who  was  waiting  for  a  long  while 
before  he  introduced  the  speaker  of  the  evening,  and  at  last,  very 
nervously,  he  turned  to  him  and  said,  "Will  I  introduce  you  now  or 
let  them  enjoy  themselves  a  little  while  longer?"  (Laughter.) 
That  always  comes  to  me,  particularly  when  1  approach  an  audience 

such  as  I  see  before  me  tonight. 

But  I  do  want  to  say,  and  say  it  most  earnestly  and  sincerely 
that,  after  a  friendship  and  acquaintance  of  very  nearly  fifty  years 
v.ith  Doctor  Green — he  has  seen  me  grow  from  boyhood  to  man- 
hood, and  1  have  known  him  continuously  from  that  time  to  this — 
that  it  is  not  so  much  to  me  his  great  success  in  his  profession,  the 
great  love  and  afTection  that  everybody  in  West  Chester  and  every- 
body that  knows  him  has  for  him,  but  to  my  mind  his  whole  life  is 
such  an  incentive  to  every  young  man  who  will  study  it  and  who 
wants  to  grow  up  to  be  not  only  a  good  man  but  a  good  citizen.  It 
is  the  greatest  incentive  in  the  world  for  them  to  be  that  kind  of  a 
man.  It  is  not  the  great  industries  of  the  state,  it  is  not  the  rail- 
roads and  everything  of  that  kind,  all  necessary  and  essential;  but 
after  all,  the  most  important  thing  to  develop  in  this  and  any  other 
state,  and  in  the  country,  is  good  men  and  good  citizens,  and  in  that 
respect  with  good  citizens  and  good  men,  the  country  is  safe. 


22  THIRTEENTH    ANNUAL    BANQUET 

I  was  asking"  Doctor  Green  while  I  was  sitting  here  to  give  nie 
some  httle  receipts  and  so  forth,  because  I  thought  I  would  like  to 
live  long  myself  if  I  could,  and  he  told  me  some  of  the  things.  I 
was  reminded  of  a  little  story  that  I  heard  Mr.  Davidson,  the  head 
of  the  Red  Cross  War  Board,  tell  before  I  came  here  to  your  little 
gathering.  He  was  speaking  of  the  great  work  done  by  the  great 
nien  of  many  races  to  help  him  in  the  work  of  this  war.  Somebody 
said  to  him,  "Afr.  Davidson,  you  nmst  worry  a  great  deal."  "No," 
he  said.  "That  reminds  me  of  a  story.  I  remember  a  man  who  told 
me  he  didn't  worry  at  all.  He  hired  somebody  who  did  the  worry- 
ing for  him.  He  was  asked,  'How  do  you  mean  that?'  He  said,  'I 
engage  a  man  and  pay  him  a  big  salary  to  do  the  worrying  for  me.' 
'How  is  that?'  'I  have  engaged  so  and  so.  and  I  have  agreed  to 
pa}-  him  $400  a  month  in  order  that  he  may  do  all  the  worrying.'  I 
said,  'That  is  remarkable.  You  can't  afford  to  pay  a  man  $400  a 
month  to  do  that  or  anything  else.'  'Well,'  he  said,  "that  is  the  first 
worrying  he  does.  That  is  the  first  worriment  he  will  have'." 
(I>.aughter.) 

Now,  my  friends,  I  just  wish  t(^  thank  the  Society  for  the 
honor  and  privilege  of  being  here,  and  as  referred  to  a  few  moments 
ago.  Dr.  Green  has  lived  all  through  this  hundred  years,  and  today 
he  is  living  perhaps  in  the  most  critical  period  in  the  history  of  this 
country.  If  you  had  heard  the  story  today  of  the  great  work  done 
bv  the  Red  Cross,  the  American  Red  Cross,  you  would  be  glad  and 
proud  to  tliink  that  you  were  Americans  and  American  citizens,  and 
probal)ly  when  the  history  of  this  great  catastrophe  is  written  the 
brightest  chapter  in  that  liistory  will  be  the  work  done  by  the 
women  of  America  in  this  great  world-wide  war.  Theirs  is  the 
sorrow^  when  war  spreads  its  terrors.  Have  you  ever  sat  at  a 
railroad  station  and  seen  the  troops  go  oiT  at  this  time?  I  have. 
Have  you  seen  the  mother  walk  up  with  her  boy,  the  wife  walk  with 
her  husband,  the  sister  walk  up  with  her  brother?  And  there  is  not 
a  tear,  not  a  tear  until  after  they  have  turned  away,  all  giving  them 
willinglv  as  a  great  sacrifice  for  you  and  for  me,  in  order  that  this 
ffreat  county  may  be  preserved  for  the  future,  for  those  who  come 
after  us.     (Prolonged  Applause.) 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  23 


DocToK  I '11  imps:  Wf  must  not  delay  this  mectini^  much 
longer  tonight.  We  have  had  before  our  Society  (Uudng  its  quarter 
of  a  century  many  lionorcd  geusts,  but,  my  friends,  we  have  had 
none  J  am  sure  who  is  so  generally  esteemed  and  so  highly  deserv- 
edly honored  as  our  chief  guest  of  the  evening;  and  now,  before  we 
separate,  I  am  going  to  introduce  to  you  Doctor  Jesse  C.  Green, 
the  honored  guest  of  the  evening,  on  his  one  hundredth  birthday. 

Remarks   of  Dr    Jesse   C.   Green 

EXTLEMEX:     I  am  glad  to  see  you  all.  but  I  don't  know 

where  I  am.     1  seem  to  have  been  completely  engulfed, 

and  I  don't  kncnv  hardly  what  point  to  get  out  at.     I  have 

spoken  to  this  Society  in  reference  to  some  past  things 

years  ago,  and  it  won't  do  to  repeat  them  lest  you  think  I  have  but 

one  idea. 

As  I  sat  there  I  have  thought  of  old  Doctor  Darlington.  He 
lived  just  in  this  neighborhood.  It  was  the  only  house  that  was 
here,  and  we  boys  at  school  thought  he  was  a  wonderful  man  be- 
cause he  could  s])eak  l'"rcnch.  We  didn't  have  an\thing  of  that 
kind  at  that  time,  ami  as  ni_\'  friend  was  speaking  about  Ualtimore, 
1  remember  having  gone  there  in  1824.  when  it  was  all  woods  on 
the  north  side  of  it  and  a  great  morass  on  the  front.  When  I  re- 
turned I  hadn't  been  there  for  forty  years,  and  1  saw  a  man  that  was 
watching  us.  At  that  time  when  we  went  there  first  there  was  a 
good  deal  of  thieving  going  on,  and  1  said  to  this  man.  "When  I  was 
here  last  that  was  a  woods,  that  was  a  morass."  "Sure,  sir.  your 
n^emory  is  verv  good."     That  was  the  answer  I  got. 

There  are  so  many  things  that  crowd  into  my  niintl,  but  I 
thought  I  might  just  say  one  thing  or  two  that  will  be  of  some  ad- 
vantage to  this  association.  I  remember  very  well  when  Judge 
Futhey  was  writing  the  History  of  Chester  Count\-.  he  wrote  to  me 
to  know  what  time  the  moon  rose  on  the  20th  of. September.  1777. 
(Laughter.)  He  said  that  "Tradition  has  said  that  it  was  a  stormy 
night."  I  turned  to  my  almanac  of  1777  and  there  T  found  the 
moon  rose  at  8.23.  It  was  full  on  the  T7th,  and  he  wrote  me  back, 
"Now,  that  has  settled  the  question  that  has  bothered  historians 


24  THIRTEENTH    ANNUAL    BANQUET 

ever  since."  So  you  see  there  is  some  advantag'e  even  in  old  alma- 
nacs, and  some  of  us  old  men  may  be  some  use,  we  don't  know.  I 
have  almanacs  from  1740  up  to  the  present  time,  for  every  year,  and 
I  am  frecjuently  spoken  to  to  know  just  what  happened,  and  so  forth. 

And  again,  one  of  my  friends  here  has  spoken  about  the  great 
West.  I  heard  my  grandfather  say  when  I  was  a  boy  that  one  of 
his  uncles  went  up  and  bought  all  the  land  where  Downingtown 
stands.  That  is  not  as  far  West  as  the  place  my  friend  alludes  to, 
but  his  father  said  to  him,  "Go  and  throw  it  up.  Who  would  ever 
want  to  go  as  far  west  as  Downingtown?  Nobody  would  be  fool 
enough  to  go  out  there.  That  is  no  place  to  go  at  all."  I  often 
think  of  what  my  grandfather  told  me  in  reference  to  the  Revolu- 
tion. He,  together  with  my  other  grandfather,  was  present  at  the 
time  of  the  Batlte  of  Chadd's  Ford,  and  they  were  on  the  south 
bank.  That  is  where  Rocky  Hill  was  in  that  day,  and  an  officer 
come  to  him  and  said,  "You  better  go  home."  They  were  then  in 
their  twentieth  year,  which  was  a  very  important  year,  for  we  all 
know  a  good  many  things  about  that  time.  He  said  to  them,  "You 
better  go  home."  My  grandfather  said  they  didn't  go,  but  after  a 
while  there  was  a  ball  went  right  along  in  front  of  them.  He  said 
they  went  home  then.  He  told  me  the  people  went  in  the  cellars 
to  avoid  the  balls,  and  every  horse  he  had  was  taken  except  one, 
and  that  belonged  to  his  mother.  They  couldn't  catch  her.  She 
would  go  over  the  fences.  Horses  would  do  that  in  that  time  as 
well  as  today. 

And  so  it  goes.  These  are  just  a  few  things  I  believe  I  didn't 
tell  before,  and  I  don't  care  to  go  over  them  all  and  tell  so  many 
things.  I  am  very  much  satisfied  and  pleased,  and  ought  to  be 
from  what  has  been  said,  and  I  feel  that  I  have  said  all  that  would 
be  advisable  tonight.     Good  night.     (Prolonged  Applause.) 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  25 


Letters   of  Regret 


Doctor  Philips:  I'.efijre  \vc  separate  I  want  to  read  two  oi 
three  Ijrief  letters  which  1  have  received  in  connection  with  this  oc- 
casion. Before  I  read  the  letters,  let  me  read  a  telej^^rani  which  just 
came  from  Long-  Branch,  New  Jersey,  addressed  to  Mr.  Stuhbs,  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Society.  It  is  from  Mrs.  Uriah  H.  Painter,  of 
you  all  know.     She  says: 

"It  is  impossible  for  Mrs.  Cunning-ham  (her  daughter)  and 
myself  to  be  present  this  evening  at  the  banquet.  We  regret  it  ex- 
ceedingly, and  ])lease  congratulate  most  heartily  Doctor  Jesse 
Green  for  us  on  his  one-hundredth  l)irthday,  and  the  Historical  So- 
ciety in  having  Ijecn  al)le  to  have  had  him  with  them  so  long. 

A.  L.  Painter." 


I  have  just  two  or  th.ree  letters.  I  haven't  tried  to  have  many. 
Here  is  one  which  will  interest  the  people  of  West  Chester  and  those 
of  us  who  live  here,  to  know  that  we  have  a  fellow-citizen  who  is 
now  nearl}-  a  hundred  and  five  years  old,  Mrs.  Anna  Elizabeth 
Phipps  Hasting^s,  in  excellent  health,  I)ul  unable  to  come  out  at 
night-now.  She  has  sent  the  following  letter  declining  regretfully 
our  invitation  to  l)e  here  tonight: 


'!-.' 


"West  Chester,  Pa.,  December  7.  1917. 
Dr.  Philips: — To  you  and  the  members  of  the  Historical 
Society  which  you  represent  I  send  most  hearty  greetings.  Be  as- 
sured that  the  invitation  to  grace  your  banquet  as  an  honored  guest 
is  deeply  appreciated,  especially  in  celebrating-  Doctor  Green's  cen- 
tenary anniversary.  Tt  would  give  me  great  pleasure  to  sit  at  your 
festive  board,  but  ntjtwithstanding  I  am  only  a  little  less  than  five 
vears  Dr.  Green's  senior,  1  have  limitations,  and  attending  evening 
banquets  is  one  of  them.  To  Dr.  (ireen  I  send  sincere  congratula- 
tions, with  the  hope  that  if  he  desires  it.  he  may  outstrip  nie  in  the 
game  of  life.  Yours  very  truly, 

Ann  Eliza  Pinrrs  TT asttncs." 


26  THIRTEENTH    ANNUAL    KANQUET 

This  is  a  letter  from  the  Governor  of  Pennsylvania.  It  is  ad- 
dressed directly  to  Dr.  Green,  but  sent  to  me  to  be  given  to  him 
tonight: 

Executive  Mansion,  Harris])urg-,  Pa.,  Nov.  23,  1917. 

Dear  Dr.  Green: — I  have  learned  that  the  Historical  Society 
will  on  December  13th  tender  you  a  testimonial  bancjuet  on  the  oc- 
casion of  your  century  anniversar\'.  I  have  been  asked  to  attend, 
l)ut  onl}'  imperative  engagements  prevent  my  coming. 

1  wish  to  join  your  other  friends  in  sincere  congratulations  to 
you  ...  I  pray  God  to  bless  you  and  grant  you  great  peace 
and  content  in  your  golden  years.  The  Lord  has  been  good  to 
you,  and  you  have  been  loyal  to  Him  and  His  cause,  which  is  the 
cause  of  all  true  citizens. 

That  your  contimung  years  may  be  rich  in  all  things  He  loves 
to  bestow  upon  those  that  love  Him,  is  my  earnest  wish,  and  my 
fervent  prayer.  \'ery  truly  yours, 

M.  G.  Brumbaugh." 

Nearly  three  years  ago,  man}-  of  the  people  here  tonight  will 
remember,  I  am  sure,  that  former  President  Taft  was  in  West 
Chester  as  a  guest  of  the  town  and  a  lecturer  here.  At  a  little  re- 
ception given  him  at  the  close  of  the  lecture  he  met  Doctor  Green 
and  was  very  much  interested  in  him.  He  had,  I  think,  never  seen 
any  one  as  old  as  Doctor  Green,  who  was  then  in  his  ninety-eighth 
year,  whose  faculties  and  mind  were  so  bright  and  keen  as  his  were ; 
and  when  he  had  gone  back  to  his  home  in  New  Haven  he  wrote  a 
letter  back  to  West  Chester,  and  among  other  things  he  asked  par- 
ticularly to  know  how  his  dear  old  century  plant,  Doctor  Green,  was. 
So  we  wrote  to  former  President  Taft  and  asked  him  to  be  here 
tonight,  and  he  has  sent  the  following  letter,  which,  with  the  othei 
letters,  I  will  hand  over  to  Doctor  Green  at  the  close  of  our  exer- 
cises: 

"New  Haven,  Conn.,  November  27th,  1917. 

My  Dear  Dr.  Philips: — I  am  very  sorry  not  to  be  able  to  accept 
the  invitation  of  the  Historical  Society  to  attend  its  annual  banquet 
on  December  13th.  in  honor  of  Dr.  Jesse  Green's  looth  birthday. 
Few  are  permitted  to  live  as  long  as  Dr.  Green,  and  to  retain  their 
faculties  as  completely  as  he.  He  is  young  because  he  interests 
himself  in  every  activity,  and  is  a  most  useful  and  upright  citizen. 
I  hope  that  Dr.  Green  may  live  many  more  years.     It  is  an  inspira- 


CHESTER    COUNTY    HISTORICAL    SOCIETY  27 

lion  to  know  and  see  one  who  stands  as  high  in  the  estimation  of  his 
fellowmen  as  does  Dr.  (ireen,  and  who  l)y  simple  living-,  and  re- 
straint from  sclf-indnlgence,  has  rounded  a  century.  Please  present 
to  him  my  warm  congratulations  and  very  best  wishes. 

wSincerely  yours. 

Wm.  H.  Taft." 

We  come  to  the  close,  my  friends,  of  what  I  am  sure  we  all 
agree  has  been  a  most  interesting  and  successful  occasion.  The 
Society  has  held  many  of  these  banquets,  but  none  so  well  attended, 
and  none,  it  seems  to  me,  quite  so  successful  and  interesting  as  this 
one  has  been.  I  want  to  thank  the  Committee  which  arranged  the 
banquet  tonight  on  behalf  of  the  Society.  I  want  to  thank  the 
ladies  of  the  New  Century  Club  for  the  splendid  care  they  have 
taken  of  us,  and  I  know  they  will  all  join  with  me  tonight  in  wishing 
Dr.  Green  upon  the  new  century  that  is  before  him  years  of  ha]:)pv. 
successful  life  and  his  happiness  will  be  our  happiness,  for  he  lives  to 
make  others  happy.  And  now  we  are  closing  our  evening,  and  i 
bid  you  all  good-night. 


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d.  1743/4 

from  Ireland 

m.    about    1G9G 
Gayen    Miller 

d.   1742   in   Kennet 

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Elizabeth    Miller 

b.  in  Kennett,  1713 
J        m.  8-25-1732 

at  Kennet  Meeting 


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b.    1674 
d.  1709  a  35 


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m.   9-16-1681 
Ann   Stovy 

Robert  Vernon 

m. 
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Thomas   Green 

d.  1691 
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d.  1708 


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b.   1691 

d.   1772   a   81 

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Emanuel  Grubb  . 

b.  1682 

d.  1767  a  85 


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b.    1706,  in   Ireland 


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Jonathan   Thatcher 
b.  1667, d.  1750 


Marv    Martin, 
m.    1690 


James    Whitaker. 
d.  1721 


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b.    1666 
d.    1738  a   72 
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d.  '1714 

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/WATCI^MAL  ^NCI:5'ri?Y 


From  a  Registry  of  some  Early  Arrivals  in  Pennsylvania: 

The  Ship  Delaware,  from  Bristol!  in  Old  England,  John  Moore 
Commander,  Arrived  here  the  i  ith  of  the  5  month  1686: 

Thomas  Greene,  husbandman.  Margaret,  his  wife,;  Thomas  and 
John,  their  sons;  Mary  Guest,  his  servant,  for  7  years  to  come  from 
the  third  day  of  May  1686. 

Richard  Moore,  Brickmaker,  &  Mary  his  wife,  and  children, 
Mary  &  John. 

Sarah  Searle  his  servant  for  4  years  to  come  from  the  3rd  of  May, 
1686. 

Henrv  Guest,  sawver,  and  Marv  his  wife,  &  Henrv  his  sone. 


From  other  sources  it  appears  that  the  wife  of  Richard  Moore 
was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Green. 

In  that  day  many  unmarried  women  came  as  servants  with 
friends  and  relatives  in  order  to  obtain  the  50  acres  of  land  which 
William  Penn  had  promised  to  servants. 

An  old  deed,  brought  from  England,  now  in  possession  of  the 
Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania,  shows  that  in  1672  some  land 
in  Birmingham.  England,  was  conveyed  by  Joan,  widow  of  John 
Guest,  to  her  son  George  Guest,  afterward  of  Philadelphia,  and  that 
it  was  adjoining  land  of  Thomas  Greene;  ])ut  whether  the  last  named 
was  the  settler  in  Pennsylvania  is  not  known. 

Gilbert  Cope. 


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